Industrial Application of Sustainable Retrofit Design

Pedro Chainhob, Ana Carvalhoa and Henrique A Matosb,    aCEG-IST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal, bCPQ, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

Due to the increase competition in the global markets, companies are increasingly receptive to new tools, which help them to improve their processes in terms of economic, environmental and social aspects. This paper aims to analyze an already existent retrofit tool called SustainPro in order to assess the level of input detail required for the analysis. Three scenarios with an increased level of input detail were analyzed. SustainPro was run to all the scenarios and ...

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